Xinhan Yú (Nanking CHN, 1996) Graduated in Pittura Arti Visive in the Two-year Specialisation Course in Visual Arts at the Academy of Fine Arts in Bologna in 2022. He currently resides in Bologna.In Yu's interventions, there is always a taste...
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Graduated in Pittura Arti Visive in the Two-year Specialisation Course in Visual Arts at the Academy of Fine Arts in Bologna in 2022. He currently resides in Bologna.In Yu's interventions, there is always a taste for spectacle, humor and the grotesque, and his provocations resonate with Chinese youth. He hides irony and metaphors in his imaginary plot, flirting with the problems of new-age Chinese society in a crude but playful way. The desire for revenge, the need to act, and the desire to circumvent a system that oppresses and inhibits are the motivations that stimulate the works of XinHan Yú, an artist of Chinese origin who uses different mediums as a tool for social criticism and a means to exhume a memory, personal and collective, of a reality that needs to be brought to light. His current practice revolves around power structures and institutions of violence.
Solo:Playground, curated by Yulia Tikhomirova, Nelumbo Open Project, Bologna, 2021Playground - Trovarsi la Guerra in Giardino, curated by Gate 26A, in collaboration with TIST.SITUATIONS, Gate 26A Gallery, Modena, 2022
Duo:嗡嗡 Brum Brum, with Stefano Riboli, curated by Alessia Pietropinto, Spazio 15, Brescia, 2022
Selected Group Exhibitions:Perspectives, curated by CICA Museum, Gimpo, South Korea, 2023 *upcoming from January 25 to February 19*Mitologie Digitali, curated by Silvia Vannacci, Contemporary Matters and Taizhou Contemporary Art Museum, Prato / Taizhou, 2022
Epilogo: Identità dissimili, curated by Luca Caccioni, Fondazione Carisbo, Bologna, 2022
Start-up, curated by Valerio Dehò, Fair Bologna, 2022Vasca Corta, curated by Gabriele Tosi and Filippo Tappi, Localedue Art Space, Bologna, 2021Sino-Italian Biennial Young Art: La Terra Quieta, curated by Hong Lingyi and Livia Giulliani, International Young Artists Association, online show, 2021The Independent Spirit, curated by Wei Hongshan, Enlai Gallery, Beijing, 2019
Fissione e Mutazione, curated by Shuiding Gallery, Xiamen, 2019
Awards:The 13th Edition Combat Prize , Vincitore Premio Galleria, Livorno, 2022
Educazione:BA, Fine Arts Academy of Sanjiang, Visual Arts, Nanjing, 2014 — 2018Graduated with full marks with honors
MA, Fine Arts Academy of Bologna, Visual Arts, Bologna, 2019 — 2022Graduated with full marks with honors, 110/110 e lode
A Chinese-born installation and video artist working and living in Bologna, Italy.
